Overview
- Focuses uniquely on promoting healthy human relationships that resonate across the globe
- Features cross-cutting themes that touch on various facets of human well-being
- Anchors healthy human relationships via social work and social development praxis yet this focus is still novel in the literature in these areas
- Proffers analyses and discussions from the global south
- Is a South African, Southern African, and African text
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Conceptual Overview
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Interpersonal Relationships
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Individuals, Families, Groups, and Communities and Vulnerability
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Policy and Legislation
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Future Prospects for Promoting Healthy Human Relationships in South Africa
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Keywords
- social development
- healthy human relationships
- post-apartheid society
- social work practitioners
- social service professions
- social welfare
- social work education
- South Africa
- vulnerable groups
- interpersonal relationships
- culture and ethnic background
- individuals, families, groups, communities
- social policy and legislation
- public policy and legislation
- social protection
- human rights
- democracy
- equity
About this book
This is the first book that examines healthy human relationships in post-apartheid South Africa. In contemporary South Africa, human relationships are under considerable threat. Despite the 1994 commitment to an inclusive and human-rights-based democracy, human relationships remain strained. Bearing in mind South Africa's tortuous and divisive past, this book brings to light many issues, prospects and challenges with regard to the promotion of healthy human relationships after apartheid ended.
Social work and social development perspectives are central to the issues that are raised in this volume. The profession of social work has always championed the centrality of human relationships, being less interested in the internal functioning of people and more interested in their interpersonal functioning within broader structures and forces, including social justice, building people's strengths and capabilities, anti-discrimination, diversity and empowerment.
This edited book is based on select papers presented at a social work conference in 2019 that was co-hosted by the Department of Social Development at the University of Cape Town and the Association of South African Social Work Education Institutions. In the chapters, the contributors offer some solutions to the ubiquitous societal ills that emanate from either corrosive or broken human relationships:
- Resurgent racism in post-apartheid South Africa and the need to promote healthy human relationships
- Promoting healthy human relationships with sub-Saharan African immigrants and South Africans
- Promoting family and human relationships in a traumatised society
- Social policy, social welfare, social security and legislation in promoting healthy human relationships in post-apartheid South Africa
- Social protection as a tool to promote healthy human relationships in South Africa
Promoting Healthy Human Relationships in Post-Apartheid South Africa is an essential resource for an international audience of scholars, policy-makers, and social work and social development practitioners, legislators and students.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Promoting Healthy Human Relationships in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Book Subtitle: Social Work and Social Development Perspectives
Editors: Ndangwa Noyoo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50139-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50138-9Published: 12 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50141-9Published: 13 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-50139-6Published: 11 October 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 226
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Work, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Social Work and Community Development, Social Policy, Politics of the Welfare State, Comparative Social Policy